Heat Can Melt Your Brain

Viva Voce | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 14, 2004)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Minty Fresh
• ASIN: B0002T7ZD4
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #242,492 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Alive With Pleasure

2. Lesson No. 1

3. Business Casual

4. Lucky Ones, The

5. High Highs

6. Daylight

7. Center Of The Universe, The

8. Free Nude Celebs

9. Mixtape=Love

10. They Never Really Wake Up

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars from the NY Times 09/19/04, September 20, 2004

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Modern Man "Brad B." (OB - Cali) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Heat Can Melt Your Brain (Audio CD)

On their new album, "The Heat Can Melt Your Brain" (Minty Fresh), Kevin and Anita Robinson present a brand of perfectly skewed pop that will appeal to Flaming Lips and Stereolab fans who want to cut a rug. Two highlights are the upbeat and criminally catchy "Free Nude Celebs" and "Business Casual," which display the duo's mastery of sonic density without clouding the songs underneath. The album's release comes just in time for the homecoming dance.
- Ben Gibbard

Ben Gibbard is the singer and guitarist for Death Cab for Cutie.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars AMAZING! A treasure chest of fun and sound., November 4, 2004

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Leah Pullem "UD Alumni" (Portland, OR) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Heat Can Melt Your Brain (Audio CD)

If you take the time to listen to The Heat Can Melt Your Brain thoroughly, you'll be handsomely rewarded. Underneath the layers of complex sound and innocent lyrics lies buried treasure. In less than an hour, Viva Voce takes you on a carefree excursion into their treasure chest of sound, barreling through a pop underbelly with soft sweeping waltzes, hip-hop and electronic southern-based rock.
Viva Voce takes ordinary-sounding instruments and makes them emerge sounding magical and exciting. Commanding guitar licks and slides, booming drums and rapid, calculated key strikes dominate the simple foundation of each song. Add into the equation hushed lyrics and gentle instrumental accents, and this equals a perfect combination of sound. By the third or fourth listen, layers such as the choir of kazoos and the gentle shake of sleigh bells blended into haunting reverberation of the saw become more evident.
Kevin and Anita, the husband/wife duo Viva Voce, take turns playing an array of instruments on this album, showcasing their versatility with each clap, hum of the kazoo, guitar riff and drum solo. From their kitchen, living room and hallways, layer upon layer of composition has been laid to form an elaborate self-recorded masterpiece.
I definitely feel like a pirate searching for buried treasure when I listen to this album. I've been in pursuit since the first listen, catching a new echo from Anita's angelic voice or a new celeste solo from Kevin one spin of the CD at a time. The Heat Can Melt Your Brain invites each eager listener to join in on this exciting hunt.
-Leah Pullem
(This was originally printed in the music magazine "Music Liberation Project")

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great fun, May 17, 2005

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reptar - See all my reviews

This review is from: Heat Can Melt Your Brain (Audio CD)

I'm new to Viva Voce's fan base, so this is actually the first album I got, but I will definitely be checking out their previous efforts. This record has a fantastic mix of imagery, trickery, and fun that is so sorely missing from so much music today. Get this record!